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Dave, I’ve been dying to see what you would write today. All I can do is congratulate you on talking about the US elections in principle without talking about the US elections in personalities. Very clever!

I think what the two unspoken topics of this post show is that the people who control the advertising landscape and political landscape don’t just not know what the people they work for think and feel.

They simply don’t think it’s possible to think or feel any differently from the way they do.

Any evidence to the contrary isn’t an argument against this. It’s an aberration to be explained away.

The political establishment and middle class are like government economists. “We aren’t experiencing a recession because we haven’t seen two or more quarters of negative economic growth.”
Trump and Brexit voters are the manager of the local Tesco. “I don’t know what this is called, but nobody’s buying anything.”

Around two or so years ago, you blogged a great piece that was critical of Content Marketing. I think I might have seen it on one of your blogs for The Gate. Your blog is no longer available there, and I was wondering if I might still be able to find it anywhere? As I say, it was a brilliant piece and completely mirrored my feelings about this hyped and contrived term. Many thanks.

Hello Dave,
I remember you writing a post once upon a time about the population of the world and how we are not going to get on with everyone and in fact we will only probably get on with a very small percentage.
I’ve tried going back through the historic posts and also reading the titles to try and identify it but no luck!
If you do somehow know the post i’m talking about i’d be really grateful if you could let me know its title or where to find it?
Thank you very much,
Cheers
Dan